THE MYSTERY OF THE HASTY ARROW

CONTENTS


BOOK I--A PROBLEM OF THE FIRST ORDER

CHAPTER

I "Let Some One Speak!"

II In Room B

III "I Have Something to Show You"

IV A Strategic Move

V Three Where Two Should Be

VI The Man in the Gallery

VII "You Think that of Me!"


BOOK II--MR. X


VIII On the Search

IX While the City Slept

X "And He Stood Here?"

XI Footsteps

XII "Spare Nobody! I Say, Spare Nobody!"

XIII "Write Me His Name"

XIV A Loop of Silk

XV News from France


BOOK III--STORM IN THE MOUNTAINS


XVI Friends

XVII The Cuckoo-Clock

XVIII Mrs. Davis' Strange Lodger

XIX Mr. Gryce and the Timid Child

XX Mr. Gryce and the Unwary Woman

XXI Perplexed

XXII He Remembers

XXIII Girls, Girls! Nothing but Girls!

XXIV Flight

XXV Terror

XXVI The Face in the Window


BOOK IV--NEMESIS


XXVII From Lips Long Silent

XXVIII "Romantic! Too Romantic!"

XXIX A Strong Man

XXX The Creeping Shadow

XXXI Confronted

XXXII "Why Is that Here?"

XXXIII Again the Cuckoo-Clock

XXXIV The Bud--Then the Deadly Flower




BOOK I

A PROBLEM OF THE FIRST ORDER




I

"LET SOME ONE SPEAK!"


The hour of noon had just struck, and the few visitors still lingering
among the curiosities of the great museum were suddenly startled by the
sight of one of the attendants running down the broad, central staircase,
loudly shouting:

"Close the doors! Let no one out! An accident has occurred, and nobody's
to leave the building."

There was but one person near either of the doors, and as he chanced to
be a man closely connected with the museum,--being, in fact, one of its
most active directors,--he immediately turned about and in obedience to a
gesture made by the attendant, ran up the marble steps, followed by some
dozen others.